Continual Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Continuous Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 62 58
Rank change year-on-year +26 -4 +23
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 5,681 5,064 8,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.79% 4.84% 5.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.74% 5.06% 5.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,214 2,907 3,762
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,647 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,456 £44,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,107 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.34% +4.54% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Continuous Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Continuous Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Continuous Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Continuous Improvement.

Salary trend for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Improvement over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Continuous Improvement in the UK

Continuous Improvement
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +29 4,411 £52,500 -4.34% 1,603
England +24 4,246 £57,500 -4.17% 1,996
Work from Home +1 1,600 £60,000 +0.80% 709
Scotland +35 1,032 £55,380 -8.49% 140
London +6 1,007 £73,000 +0.69% 549
North of England +46 969 £52,500 -2.33% 430
Midlands +18 830 £52,500 - 273
South East +4 713 £51,000 -15.00% 338
West Midlands +16 623 £53,500 +0.94% 176
North West +46 525 £51,000 -7.27% 247
South West +9 452 £52,396 -0.20% 197
Yorkshire +39 343 £60,000 +9.33% 144
East of England +3 235 £55,000 +10.00% 176
East Midlands +10 196 £47,500 -5.00% 97
Wales +45 155 £51,997 +16.41% 80
North East +28 101 £45,000 +20.00% 51
Northern Ireland +43 28 £67,500 +50.00% 26
Channel Islands - 1 £85,000 -

Continuous Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 215 (3.78%) Apache Spark
2 160 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 134 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 125 (2.20%) Confluence
5 83 (1.46%) Apache
6 35 (0.62%) SAS
7 34 (0.60%) FileNet
8 28 (0.49%) CMS
9 27 (0.48%) IIS
10 17 (0.30%) nginx
11 12 (0.21%) Skype for Business
12 11 (0.19%) WordPress
13 9 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
13 9 (0.16%) Drupal
14 7 (0.12%) Appian
15 6 (0.11%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.088%) ArcGIS
16 5 (0.088%) Tomcat
17 4 (0.070%) NServiceBus
18 3 (0.053%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 540 (9.51%) Microsoft Office
2 414 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 134 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 47 (0.83%) MS Visio
6 42 (0.74%) AutoCAD
7 14 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.16%) Simulink
9 6 (0.11%) SPSS
10 5 (0.088%) Oracle Smart View
10 5 (0.088%) Solid Edge
10 5 (0.088%) SOLIDWORKS
11 4 (0.070%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.070%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.070%) Trello
12 3 (0.053%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.053%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.053%) Camtasia
12 3 (0.053%) Siemens NX
13 2 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 39 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (0.32%) NEC Housing
4 16 (0.28%) iTrent
4 16 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
5 13 (0.23%) SAP ERP
6 11 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
7 10 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.14%) Magento
8 8 (0.14%) Sage 200
8 8 (0.14%) Shopify
9 6 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.11%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.11%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.11%) SAP MM
9 6 (0.11%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.11%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 881 (15.51%) Azure
2 799 (14.06%) AWS
3 370 (6.51%) Power Platform
4 353 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
5 178 (3.13%) GCP
6 171 (3.01%) SaaS
7 164 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
8 118 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
9 110 (1.94%) Serverless
10 109 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
11 98 (1.73%) Entra ID
12 79 (1.39%) GitHub
13 75 (1.32%) PowerApps
14 74 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
15 67 (1.18%) Amazon S3
16 64 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
17 60 (1.06%) Power Automate
18 57 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
19 54 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
20 52 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 144 (2.53%) Firewall
2 93 (1.64%) DNS
3 81 (1.43%) WAN
4 80 (1.41%) SAN
5 75 (1.32%) LAN
6 69 (1.21%) VoIP
7 64 (1.13%) VPN
8 59 (1.04%) Internet
9 52 (0.92%) VLAN
10 50 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
11 47 (0.83%) TCP/IP
12 44 (0.77%) DHCP
13 42 (0.74%) Network Security
14 36 (0.63%) Broadband
15 31 (0.55%) SNMP
16 30 (0.53%) Wireless
17 28 (0.49%) Intranet
17 28 (0.49%) NAS
18 27 (0.48%) HTTP
19 25 (0.44%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (6.16%) NoSQL
2 305 (5.37%) Power BI
3 240 (4.22%) SQL Server
4 200 (3.52%) Big Data
5 161 (2.83%) Hadoop
6 115 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 108 (1.90%) Data Lake
8 107 (1.88%) Apache Hive
9 102 (1.80%) MySQL
10 86 (1.51%) HBase
11 85 (1.50%) Tableau
12 70 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
13 68 (1.20%) MongoDB
14 60 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
15 55 (0.97%) Electronic Patient Records
16 49 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
16 49 (0.86%) Power Query
17 44 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 43 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
19 41 (0.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 288 (5.07%) JIRA
2 284 (5.00%) Git
3 219 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 95 (1.67%) JUnit
5 86 (1.51%) Bitbucket Server
6 62 (1.09%) Selenium
7 55 (0.97%) Cypress.io
8 39 (0.69%) WebDriver
9 34 (0.60%) GitLab
10 32 (0.56%) Bitbucket
10 32 (0.56%) TeamCity
11 29 (0.51%) Android Studio
12 27 (0.48%) Jasmine
13 24 (0.42%) Visual Studio
14 21 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
14 21 (0.37%) Protractor
14 21 (0.37%) Subversion
15 19 (0.33%) Maven
16 16 (0.28%) Cucumber
17 15 (0.26%) PHPUnit
General
1 2,219 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 2,016 (35.49%) Finance
3 1,159 (20.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,127 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
5 1,117 (19.66%) Law
6 817 (14.38%) Legal
7 388 (6.83%) Marketing
8 387 (6.81%) Influencing Skills
9 367 (6.46%) Banking
10 358 (6.30%) Manufacturing
11 322 (5.67%) Organisational Skills
12 261 (4.59%) Retail
13 247 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
14 215 (3.78%) Public Sector
15 126 (2.22%) Investment Banking
16 123 (2.17%) Telecoms
17 112 (1.97%) Military
18 71 (1.25%) Local Government
19 68 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
20 66 (1.16%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 867 (15.26%) Software Engineer
2 696 (12.25%) Analyst
3 606 (10.67%) Lead
4 558 (9.82%) Senior
5 512 (9.01%) Developer
6 315 (5.54%) Java Engineer
7 302 (5.32%) Java Software Engineer
8 254 (4.47%) Project Manager
9 220 (3.87%) Graduate
10 217 (3.82%) AWS Engineer
11 198 (3.49%) Architect
11 198 (3.49%) IT Manager
12 197 (3.47%) AWS Software Engineer
12 197 (3.47%) IT Engineer
13 184 (3.24%) Data Engineer
14 138 (2.43%) Full Stack Engineer
15 134 (2.36%) Product Analyst
16 133 (2.34%) Big Data Engineer
16 133 (2.34%) Big Data Software Engineer
17 131 (2.31%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (5.69%) React
2 287 (5.05%) Spring
3 260 (4.58%) AngularJS
4 255 (4.49%) HTML
5 246 (4.33%) .NET
6 226 (3.98%) CSS
7 177 (3.12%) Node.js
8 165 (2.90%) JSON
9 147 (2.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 146 (2.57%) Kafka
11 139 (2.45%) RESTful
12 138 (2.43%) Web Services
13 121 (2.13%) J2EE
14 118 (2.08%) XML
15 113 (1.99%) JMS
16 110 (1.94%) Spring Boot
17 102 (1.80%) REST
18 99 (1.74%) Hibernate
19 98 (1.73%) jQuery
20 75 (1.32%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 782 (13.77%) Algorithms
2 387 (6.81%) Onboarding
3 378 (6.65%) Management Information System
4 226 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
5 217 (3.82%) Cloud Native
6 209 (3.68%) Product Ownership
7 142 (2.50%) FMCG
8 101 (1.78%) Data Centre
9 89 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 80 (1.41%) Driving Licence
11 78 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
12 69 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
13 61 (1.07%) Virtual Team
14 59 (1.04%) Clustering
14 59 (1.04%) Public Cloud
15 57 (1.00%) Mobile App
16 48 (0.84%) Legacy Code
17 45 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
18 43 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
18 43 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 430 (7.57%) Windows
2 245 (4.31%) Linux
3 206 (3.63%) Windows Server
4 143 (2.52%) Unix
5 87 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 86 (1.51%) Android
7 55 (0.97%) Apple iOS
8 49 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
9 28 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
10 24 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 22 (0.39%) Ubuntu
12 19 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
13 18 (0.32%) Windows 7
14 15 (0.26%) VMS
15 14 (0.25%) SUSE
16 13 (0.23%) AIX
16 13 (0.23%) CentOS
16 13 (0.23%) Windows 8
17 11 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
18 9 (0.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,188 (38.51%) Agile
2 1,642 (28.90%) Problem-Solving
3 1,127 (19.84%) Software Engineering
4 1,080 (19.01%) CI/CD
5 958 (16.86%) SDLC
6 941 (16.56%) Visualisation
7 833 (14.66%) Project Management
8 795 (13.99%) Artificial Intelligence
9 751 (13.22%) Risk Management
10 738 (12.99%) Machine Learning
11 700 (12.32%) Community of Practice
12 691 (12.16%) Operational Stability
13 607 (10.68%) Customer Service
14 591 (10.40%) Mentoring
15 571 (10.05%) DevOps
16 498 (8.77%) Project Delivery
17 491 (8.64%) Coaching
18 469 (8.26%) Decision-Making
19 459 (8.08%) Roadmaps
20 443 (7.80%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 949 (16.70%) SQL
2 776 (13.66%) Java
3 649 (11.42%) Python
4 365 (6.42%) JavaScript
5 298 (5.25%) C#
6 204 (3.59%) PowerShell
7 170 (2.99%) TypeScript
8 137 (2.41%) PL/SQL
9 102 (1.80%) T-SQL
10 76 (1.34%) Scala
11 61 (1.07%) Kotlin
11 61 (1.07%) PHP
12 59 (1.04%) Bash
13 52 (0.92%) C
14 43 (0.76%) Bicep
15 37 (0.65%) C++
16 28 (0.49%) VB
17 26 (0.46%) VBA
18 25 (0.44%) R
19 24 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,373 (24.17%) Degree
2 189 (3.33%) Security Cleared
3 183 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 133 (2.34%) Master's Degree
5 117 (2.06%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 95 (1.67%) SC Cleared
7 89 (1.57%) PMI Certification
8 67 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 62 (1.09%) DBS Check
10 59 (1.04%) HNC
10 59 (1.04%) PMP
11 58 (1.02%) HND
12 57 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 53 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
13 53 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
14 46 (0.81%) CISSP
15 36 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
16 34 (0.60%) DV Cleared
16 34 (0.60%) MBA
17 33 (0.58%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 421 (7.41%) QA
2 168 (2.96%) SLA
3 147 (2.59%) GDPR
4 142 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 110 (1.94%) PMO
6 90 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 78 (1.37%) Data Quality
8 73 (1.28%) ISO 9001
9 62 (1.09%) NIST
10 55 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
11 35 (0.62%) ISO 14001
12 31 (0.55%) IFRS
13 29 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
14 27 (0.48%) NEBOSH
15 22 (0.39%) NCSC
16 21 (0.37%) GRC
16 21 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 18 (0.32%) ISO 22301
17 18 (0.32%) PCI DSS
18 13 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 303 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 212 (3.73%) Docker
3 147 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 94 (1.65%) HDFS
5 60 (1.06%) Hyper-V
6 43 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 37 (0.65%) vSphere
8 31 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
9 23 (0.40%) Firmware
10 22 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
11 14 (0.25%) vCloud
12 6 (0.11%) DFS Replication
12 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.088%) XenApp
14 4 (0.070%) pfSense
15 3 (0.053%) Ceph
15 3 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
16 2 (0.035%) IAG
16 2 (0.035%) Microsoft App-V
16 2 (0.035%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 294 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 254 (4.47%) Terraform
3 82 (1.44%) Grafana
4 72 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 67 (1.18%) Ansible
6 45 (0.79%) vCenter Server
7 38 (0.67%) SCCM
8 35 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 33 (0.58%) Functional Safety
10 28 (0.49%) Puppet
11 25 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
12 22 (0.39%) Nagios
13 20 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
14 18 (0.32%) NetBackup
15 17 (0.30%) Progress Chef
16 13 (0.23%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.23%) ZABBIX
17 12 (0.21%) Backup Exec
18 11 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 10 (0.18%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 993 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 272 (4.79%) Oracle
3 259 (4.56%) Databricks
4 206 (3.63%) VMware
5 197 (3.47%) SAP
6 144 (2.53%) Cisco
7 143 (2.52%) Google
8 109 (1.92%) Salesforce
8 109 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 86 (1.51%) Informatica
10 72 (1.27%) Citrix
11 64 (1.13%) Cloudera
12 56 (0.99%) Splunk
13 53 (0.93%) Dynatrace
14 50 (0.88%) Alteryx
14 50 (0.88%) HP
14 50 (0.88%) Veeam
15 32 (0.56%) Commvault
16 29 (0.51%) Atlassian
16 29 (0.51%) SolarWinds